Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati was a Hindu spiritual leader and teacher who inspired the formation of Chinmaya Mission, a worldwide nonprofit organisation, to spread the knowledge of Advaita Vedanta, the non-dual system of thought found in the Upanishads, which epitomise the philosophical teachings of the Vedas.
Chinmayananda is known for teaching Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and other ancient Hindu scriptures. From 1951 onward, he spearheaded a global Hindu spiritual and cultural renaissance that popularised the religion's esoteric scriptural texts, teaching them in English all across India and abroad.
Chinmayananda inspired the formation of Chinmaya Mission in 1953. Founded by his disciples and led by him, it is a spiritual, educational, and charitable nonprofit organization that encompasses more than 300 centres in India and internationally. He authored 95 publications, including commentaries on the major Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita. He was a visiting professor of Indian philosophy at several American and Asian universities and he conducted university lecture tours in many countries.
Through his Vedantic teachings, publications, centres, ashrams, temples, and social service projects around the globe, his work continues to provide cultural and spiritual instruction to members of the Hindu diaspora. He died on 3 August 1993.
“Disappointment can come only to those who make appointments with the future.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Variante: Disappointment can come only to those who make appointments with the future.
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Mind can make a hell of heaven. Or a heaven of hell.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Efficiency is the capacity to bring proficiency into expression.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“The glory of life is not never falling. The true glory consists in rising each time we fall.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“The spirit of Advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Comfort comes as a guest; lingers to become the host,- and stays to enslave us.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Variante: Comfort comes as a guest; lingers to become the host,- and stays to enslave us.
“Introspect daily, detect diligently, negate ruthlessly.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“The success is not in the trophy won but in the race run …”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Surrender inspite of Freedom' is the way of wisemen.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Without devotion, knowledge is tasteless. Without knowledge, devotion is mere empty idol worship.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Out of purity and silence come words of power.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Variante: Out of purity and silence come words of power.
“Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“He who depends on chances and situations to be happy, is a Sansari.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Adversity, on the contrary, sobers him and reminds him of God and his Glory.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“When the time of judgement comes, we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Quoted in "Forever is in the Now: The Timeless Message of Sri Ramana Maharshi", p. 192
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“It is sure to be dark if you close your eyes.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“The cultured give happiness wherever they go. The uncultured whenever they go.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Alert and vigilant living itself is a `Sadhana' in the true sense.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Faults become thick when love is thin.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
